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Carleton College
Office of Media Relations One North College Street, Northfield, Minnesota 55057 507.646.4184
February 8, 2001
Sp57
Contact: Sarah Maxwell
Media Relations Assistant
507.646.4184
Eve Ensler's 'The Vagina Monologues' to be Performed at Carleton College
Northfield, Minn.—Carleton College students and staff will perform Eve Ensler's Obie Award-
winning play, "The Vagina Monologues," at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17, in Carleton's Concert
Hall. A donation of $3-5 is suggested, and all proceeds will be donated to the Rice County
Women's Safe Center. Organized by Carleton's Collective for Women's Issues, the play is part of a
five-day V-Day College Initiative campaign to end sexual violence against women.
Ensler, a playwright, poet, and activist, based the monologues on interviews she conducted
with women ages six to 75. She used the word "vagina" to prompt discussions of violence, female
sexuality and feminism. Ensler has performed "The Vagina Monologues" worldwide.
In 1998, Ensler organized a gala performance of the play with actresses Lily Tomlin,
Winona Ryder, Glenn Close, and Whoopi Goldberg. This event was an organized response to
sexual violence against women and an attempt to recast Valentine's Day as a celebration of female
empowerment. The event received such critical acclaim that the following year Ensler founded the
V-Day College Initiative, to include college-age women in the movement and allow them to
perform the monologues on their college campuses.
For more information, please call 507.646.5562.
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news
Carleton College
Office of Media Relations One North College Street, Northfield, Minnesota 55057 507.646.4184
February 8, 2001
Sp57
Contact: Sarah Maxwell
Media Relations Assistant
507.646.4184
Eve Ensler's 'The Vagina Monologues' to be Performed at Carleton College
Northfield, Minn.—Carleton College students and staff will perform Eve Ensler's Obie Award-
winning play, "The Vagina Monologues," at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17, in Carleton's Concert
Hall. A donation of $3-5 is suggested, and all proceeds will be donated to the Rice County
Women's Safe Center. Organized by Carleton's Collective for Women's Issues, the play is part of a
five-day V-Day College Initiative campaign to end sexual violence against women.
Ensler, a playwright, poet, and activist, based the monologues on interviews she conducted
with women ages six to 75. She used the word "vagina" to prompt discussions of violence, female
sexuality and feminism. Ensler has performed "The Vagina Monologues" worldwide.
In 1998, Ensler organized a gala performance of the play with actresses Lily Tomlin,
Winona Ryder, Glenn Close, and Whoopi Goldberg. This event was an organized response to
sexual violence against women and an attempt to recast Valentine's Day as a celebration of female
empowerment. The event received such critical acclaim that the following year Ensler founded the
V-Day College Initiative, to include college-age women in the movement and allow them to
perform the monologues on their college campuses.
For more information, please call 507.646.5562.
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